We returned to Europe on November 22nd and went directly to Duelmen, Germany to pick up our motorhome Romy after his long sleep in the freezing cold of winter, only to be greeted with more of the same. We did, however, spend a few days in the neighborhood [...]
Mid April of 2003 found us back in Gaeta, Italy, and contemplating whether to continue sailing or to move on to other things. We loved our life on Icarus, and certainly found the Mediterranean to be fascinating for its varied cultures, and we are not 'island hopping' types so [...]
We returned to sailing later than we had anticipated in Spring of 1999, in part because of the birth of our first grandchild in Toronto a couple of days after Christmas, and land travel for the winter. We picked up Dan the Van outside San Francisco in [...]
We finished our stay in Provence with a bit of drama and adventure, not altogether pleasant! We finally decided that we had to head north toward storing Romy for the winter in Germany, and to do so we had to go around Arles, that lovely town full [...]
We had eight great days in Beaune and thereabouts, checking out the vineyards, enjoying the walled city itself, and spending some considerable time turning Ramblin' Romy into a comfortable home. We then headed south to Aix en Provence, that marvelous city at the heart of Provence and enjoyed [...]
Once we had finished all the paperwork for the purchase of Romy, and had assured the dealership owner that the money was in transit, we set out to the south in search of a bit more sunshine and warmth than we were finding in northern Germany. In [...]
We arrived in Paris to spend a couple of days before heading off to central France to meet our New Zealand sailing friends from the Mediterranean who have had a canal boat in Europe for seven years. The time in Paris was wonderful, much of it spent [...]
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